Philosophy: I am a constructivist at heart. Though I am an Instructional Technology Coordinator, my interest is in rethinking how teachers teach and students learn. The paradigm shift to collaborative, student-centered learning is one that keeps me interested in using available technology to engage learners.
My friend Elizabeth Helfant addresses this shift here: What does all of that mean for education? Education like media needs to acknowledge that it isn’t a one to many learning economy. It is a many to many learning environment of sharing that properly harnessed can see students take sharing to the highest level of collaborative action and that can engage students in global collaboration and digital citizenship. It means that education like media needs to shift from the one dimensional consumption model to to its own three part system that includes accessing knowledge (consumption), collaborating to construct meaning (producing), and transforming the meaning into a shared product (sharing).
What does this mean for FA? These digital portfolios are a beginning. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's and Will Richardson's Powerful Learning Practice, in which we will participate next year is the next step.
I hope we use as our guiding factors these Information Literacy Standards (prepared by the AASL)
Philosophy: I am a constructivist at heart. Though I am an Instructional Technology Coordinator, my interest is in rethinking how teachers teach and students learn. The paradigm shift to collaborative, student-centered learning is one that keeps me interested in using available technology to engage learners.
My friend Elizabeth Helfant addresses this shift here:
What does all of that mean for education? Education like media needs to acknowledge that it isn’t a one to many learning economy. It is a many to many learning environment of sharing that properly harnessed can see students take sharing to the highest level of collaborative action and that can engage students in global collaboration and digital citizenship. It means that education like media needs to shift from the one dimensional consumption model to to its own three part system that includes accessing knowledge (consumption), collaborating to construct meaning (producing), and transforming the meaning into a shared product (sharing).
What does this mean for FA? These digital portfolios are a beginning. Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's and Will Richardson's Powerful Learning Practice, in which we will participate next year is the next step.
I hope we use as our guiding factors these Information Literacy Standards (prepared by the AASL)